Strategic Finance Planning Analyst - Manufacturing

Generac Power Systems Inc.; Holdrege (NE); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Generac Power Systems Inc. seeks a Finance Analyst to support monthly forecasts, annual budgets, and long-range planning in a manufacturing environment.

You will analyze actual results against budgets, perform cost analyses, and prepare financial models and dashboards to improve profitability and cost control. You will partner with Finance, Operations, Production, Purchasing, and Supply Chain to drive visibility, explain variances, and support cost-reduction initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, financial modeling, and communication skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills; experience with financial reporting, planning, ERP, or business intelligence tools preferred.
• Working knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, financial statements, variance analysis, cost accounting, standard costing, inventory accounting, and COGS analysis.

Responsibilities

• Support monthly forecasts, annual budgets, long-range planning, and related financial reporting processes.
• Analyze actual results against budget, forecast, and standard cost; identify key financial, operational, and manufacturing cost variances.
• Perform cost analysis related to production, material usage, labor, overhead, PPV, inventory adjustments, and other cost drivers.
• Support standard costing activities, including review of bills of material, routings, labor and overhead rates, cost rolls, and product cost updates.
• Prepare monthly reporting packages, financial models, dashboards, business performance presentations, and ad hoc analyses.
• Support P&L, margin, product profitability, cost center, operating expense, inventory, and cost of goods sold analysis.
• Assist with month-end close activities, including accruals, reconciliations, inventory valuation, and review of financial results.
• Partner with Finance, Operations, Production, Purchasing, Supply Chain, and Sales to improve financial visibility, investigate variances, and support corrective actions.
• Provide financial and cost insights to support margin improvement, cost reduction, productivity, inventory accuracy, cash flow, and profitability initiatives.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by leadership to support business needs.

Skills

Cost accounting

Financial modeling

Budgeting

Forecasting

Excel

ERP

Variance analysis

COGS analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Dynamics GP

OneStream

Power BI

Job description

Generac Power Systems Inc. seeks a Finance Analyst to support monthly forecasts, annual budgets, and long-range planning in a manufacturing environment.

You will analyze actual results against budgets, perform cost analyses, and prepare financial models and dashboards to improve profitability and cost control. You will partner with Finance, Operations, Production, Purchasing, and Supply Chain to drive visibility, explain variances, and support cost-reduction initiatives.